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The order of things : hierarchies, structures & pecking orders for the voraciously curious

Divided into thirteen areas of knowledge, more than 400 lists and illustrations present the order, hierarchy, and structure of both natural and man-made things, such as the longest rivers, the highest mountains, the ranks of the Mafia, and the order of events in the Big Bang.

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  • "Divided into thirteen areas of knowledge, more than 400 lists and illustrations present the order, hierarchy, and structure of both natural and man-made things, such as the longest rivers, the highest mountains, the ranks of the Mafia, and the order of events in the Big Bang."
  • "Divided into thirteen areas of knowledge, more than 400 lists and illustrations present the order, hierarchy, and structure of both natural and man-made things, such as the longest rivers, the highest mountains, the ranks of the Mafia, and the order of events in the Big Bang."@en
  • "Utterly compelling! Barbara Ann Kipfer has elevated the list to high art and bestselling pleasure. A foremost expert of classification, in The Order of Things, she does for life what her previous books do for happiness and wisdom?organize it in a way that is brilliantly conceived. The The Order of Things is practical, entertaining, eclectic, and impossible to put down. Beginning with Earth?Smog Alert States, Rain Forest Layers, Coal Sizes? and ending with General Knowledge and Philosophy (the I Ching's 64 chapters, Ludwig Wittgenstein's four-step Method of Overcoming Puzzlement), it is a 14-chapter taxonomy of the world as we know it:? The Seven Hills of Rome, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Seven Dwarfs?check.? The belt degrees of karate and judo, weight classes of professional and amateur boxing, flower names of the golf holes at Augusta?check.? The hierarchy of the FBI, publication order of Shakespeare's plays, cuts of beef, Freud's divisions of the human psyche, order of rank in world armies and navies, Jupiter's satellites, ships' bells, traditional and modern wine measures, blood-pressure levels, fastest animals?check. A completely indispensable reference?check."@en
  • "Classification expert Barbara Ann Kipfer gives you more than 400 informative lists, hierarchies and illustrations divided into thirteen essential areas of knowledge : earth sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics and measurements, technology, religion, history, social sciences, business and economics, the arts, domestic life,sports and recreation and general knowledge."
  • "Explains the organization of four hundred hierarchies in the arts, business, history, religion, science, sports, and other fields."@en

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  • "The order of things : how everything in the world is organized-- into hierarchies, structures & pecking orders"
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  • "The order of things how everything in the world is organized-- into hierarchies, structures, & pecking orders"@en
  • "The order of things : how everything in the world is organized-- into hierarchies, structures, & pecking orders"
  • "The order of things : how everything in the world is organized into hierarchies, structures & pecking orders"
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  • "The order of things : hierarchies, structures, and pecking orders"
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